Why People Resist God
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Not for rational reasons.
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Often the thing rejected is not Christ but Christians.
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Often it is a fear of the Church and it’s teaching an authority that scares people away.
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The reluctance is usually moral. To admit that Jesus is divine is to admit his absolute authority over your life.
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Some people are afraid of the supernatural because it is mysterious or uncontrollable
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Pride, refusal to lose control of the reins of their lives.
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It is not intellectually fashionable to believe in Christ as anything more than a teacher. We love peer acceptance approval and support. We fear nonconformity, weirdness, or being “out of it”
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Finally, American’s and much of the world’s deepest religion is often ”equality.” The notion that all religions are not equal offends our “real religion” of “equality”, which makes no demands on us to discriminate and choose one and justify that choice.
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None of these unbelief's are a reason but only a motive.
The Problem of Evil
Philosophy professor Peter Kreeft, argues that suffering does not disprove God's existence.
It addresses the problem of evil, dividing suffering into moral evil (caused by human actions) and natural suffering (caused by nature).
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Moral Evil: Free will explains human-caused suffering; without free will, moral judgments would be meaningless. If there were no God, there would be no absolute standard for good and evil—only subjective preferences.
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Natural Suffering: The objection to suffering assumes a sense of justice, which requires an objective moral standard. If nature is all there is, suffering is simply part of survival. The believer in God can hope that suffering is ultimately set right, but atheists face a bleak reality where suffering has no resolution.
Kreeft concludes that the very recognition of suffering presupposes God, since without an objective standard, suffering wouldn’t be unjust—it would simply exist.